burglar | (noun) a thief who enters a building with intent to steal | - |
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burgomaster | (noun) a mayor of a municipality in Germany or Holland or Flanders or Austria | - |
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burner | (noun) an apparatus for burning fuel (or refuse) | - |
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(noun) the heating elements of a stove or range on which pots and pans are placed for cooking | - |
burnisher | (noun) a hand tool with polished agate tips (or other gemstone) for rubbing the gold leaf in order to obtain a highly polished surface, used in gilding. | Synonyms: burnishing tool |
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burr | (noun) rough projection left on a workpiece after drilling or cutting | - |
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(noun) rotary file for smoothing rough edges left on a workpiece | - |
(noun) small bit used in dentistry or surgery | Synonyms: bur |
(noun) seed vessel having hooks or prickles | Synonyms: bur |
(verb) remove the burrs from | Synonyms: bur |
bursar | (noun) the treasurer at a college or university | - |
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burster | (noun) a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time | Synonyms: bursting charge, charge, explosive charge |
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busbar | (noun) an electrical conductor that makes a common connection between several circuits | Synonyms: bus |
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bushwhacker | (noun) a disparaging term for an unsophisticated person | Synonyms: hillbilly |
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(noun) a Confederate guerrilla during the American Civil War | - |
busker | (noun) a person who entertains people for money in public places (as by singing or dancing), usually while asking for money | - |
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buster | (noun) a person (or thing) that breaks up or overpowers something | - |
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(noun) a person who breaks horses | Synonyms: bronco buster, broncobuster |
(noun) a robust child | - |
(noun) an informal form of address for a man | Synonyms: dude, fellow |
(noun) a person born in the generation following the baby boom when the birth rate fell dramatically | Synonyms: baby buster |
bustier | (noun) a close-fitting and strapless top without sleeves that is worn by women either as lingerie or for evening dress | - |
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butcher | (noun) a person who slaughters or dresses meat for market | Synonyms: slaughterer |
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(noun) a brutal indiscriminate murderer | - |
(noun) a retailer of meat | Synonyms: meatman |
(noun) someone who makes mistakes because of incompetence | Synonyms: blunderer, botcher, bumbler, bungler, fuckup, fumbler, sad sack, stumbler |
(verb) kill (animals) usually for food consumption | Synonyms: slaughter |
butler | (noun) a manservant (usually the head servant of a household) who has charge of wines and the table | Synonyms: pantryman |
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butter | (noun) an edible emulsion of fat globules made by churning milk or cream; for cooking and table use | - |
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(noun) a fighter who strikes the opponent with his head | - |
(verb) spread butter on | - |
butterbur | (noun) small Eurasian herb having broad leaves and lilac-pink rayless flowers; found in moist areas | Synonyms: bog rhubarb, Petasites hybridus, Petasites vulgaris |
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butterflower | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Ranunculus | Synonyms: butter-flower, buttercup, crowfoot, goldcup, kingcup |
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buyer | (noun) a person who buys | Synonyms: emptor, purchaser, vendee |
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buzzer | (noun) a push button at an outer door that gives a ringing or buzzing signal when pushed | Synonyms: bell, doorbell |
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(noun) a signaling device that makes a buzzing sound | - |
bystander | (noun) a nonparticipant spectator | - |
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cabdriver | (noun) someone who drives a taxi for a living | Synonyms: cabby, cabman, hack-driver, hack driver, livery driver, taxidriver, taximan |
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caber | (noun) a heavy wooden pole (such as the trunk of a young fir) that is tossed as a test of strength (in the Highlands of northern Scotland) | - |
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cabinetmaker | (noun) a woodworker who specializes in making furniture | Synonyms: furniture maker |
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cackler | (noun) a hen that has just laid an egg and emits a shrill squawk | - |
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(noun) any of various insectivorous Old World birds with a loud incessant song; in some classifications considered members of the family Muscicapidae | Synonyms: babbler |
cadaster | (noun) a public register showing the details of ownership and value of land; made for the purpose of taxation | Synonyms: cadastre |
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cadaver | (noun) the dead body of a human being | Synonyms: clay, corpse, remains, stiff |
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cadger | (noun) someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free) | Synonyms: mooch, moocher, scrounger |
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caffer | (noun) an offensive and insulting term for any Black African | Synonyms: caffre, kaffir, kafir |
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cager | (noun) an athlete who plays basketball | Synonyms: basketball player, basketeer |
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calculator | (noun) a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations; can be mechanical or electronic | Synonyms: calculating machine |
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(noun) an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines) | Synonyms: computer, estimator, figurer, reckoner |
calendar | (noun) a list or register of events (appointments or social events or court cases etc) | - |
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(noun) a tabular array of the days (usually for one year) | - |
(noun) a system of timekeeping that defines the beginning and length and divisions of the year | - |
(verb) enter into a calendar | - |
calender | (noun) a machine that smooths or glazes paper or cloth by pressing it between plates or passing it through rollers | - |
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(verb) press between rollers or plates so as to smooth, glaze, or thin into sheets | - |
caliber | (noun) a degree or grade of excellence or worth | Synonyms: calibre, quality |
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(noun) diameter of a tube or gun barrel | Synonyms: bore, calibre, gauge |
calicular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calycular |
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caliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: calliper |
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(verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: calliper |
caller | (adjective) providing coolness | - |
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(adjective) fresh | - |
(noun) a social or business visitor | Synonyms: company |
(noun) the person initiating a telephone call | Synonyms: caller-up, phoner, telephoner |
(noun) the person who convenes a meeting | - |
(noun) someone who proclaims or summons in a loud voice | - |
(noun) a person who announces the changes of steps during a dance | Synonyms: caller-out |
(noun) the bettor in a card game who matches the bet and calls for a show of hands | - |
(noun) an investor who buys a call option | - |
calligrapher | (noun) someone skilled in penmanship | Synonyms: calligraphist |
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calliper | (noun) an instrument for measuring the distance between two points | Synonyms: caliper |
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(verb) measure the diameter of something with calipers | Synonyms: caliper |
calorimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument that determines quantities of heat | - |
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calorisator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorizator |
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calorizator | (noun) an apparatus used in beet-sugar factories to heat the juice in order to aid the diffusion. | Synonyms: calorisator |
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calycular | (adjective) relating to or resembling a calyculus | Synonyms: calicular |
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calypter | (noun) scalelike structure between the base of the wing and the halter of a two-winged fly | Synonyms: alula |
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camber | (noun) the alignment of the wheels of a motor vehicle closer together at the bottom than at the top | - |
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(noun) a slope in the turn of a road or track; the outside is higher than the inside in order to reduce the effects of centrifugal force | Synonyms: bank, cant |
(noun) a slight convexity (as of the surface of a road) | - |
(verb) curve upward in the middle | - |
camcorder | (noun) a portable television camera and videocassette recorder | - |
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camelhair | (noun) a soft tan cloth made with the hair of a camel | Synonyms: camel's hair |
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campaigner | (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: candidate, nominee |
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campanular | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanulate, campanulated |
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camper | (noun) a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling | Synonyms: camping bus, motor home |
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(noun) someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation | - |
camphor | (noun) a resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment | - |
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canalicular | (adjective) relating to or like or having a canaliculus | - |
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cancer | (noun) any malignant growth or tumor caused by abnormal and uncontrolled cell division; it may spread to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system or the blood stream | Synonyms: malignant neoplastic disease |
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candlemaker | (noun) a person who makes or sells candles | - |
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candlepower | (noun) luminous intensity measured in candelas | Synonyms: light intensity |
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candlesnuffer | (noun) an implement with a small cup at the end of a handle; used to extinguish the flame of a candle | - |
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candor | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candour, directness, forthrightness, frankness |
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(noun) ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty | Synonyms: candour, fair-mindedness, fairness |
candour | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness |
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(noun) ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty | Synonyms: candor, fair-mindedness, fairness |
candymaker | (noun) someone who makes candies and other sweets | Synonyms: confectioner |
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canecutter | (noun) a wood rabbit of southeastern United States swamps and lowlands | Synonyms: swamp hare, swamp rabbit, Sylvilagus aquaticus |
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canicular | (adjective) relating to or especially immediately preceding or following the heliacal rising of Canicula (the Dog Star) | - |
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(adjective) of or relating to the dog days of summer | - |
canister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: cannister, tin |
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(noun) a metallic cylinder packed with shot and used as ammunition in a firearm | Synonyms: canister shot, case shot |
canker | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: pestilence |
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(noun) an ulceration (especially of the lips or lining of the mouth) | Synonyms: canker sore |
(noun) a fungal disease of woody plants that causes localized damage to the bark | - |
(verb) infect with a canker | - |
(verb) become infected with a canker | - |
cannister | (noun) metal container for storing dry foods such as tea or flour | Synonyms: canister, tin |
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cannoneer | (noun) a serviceman in the artillery | Synonyms: artilleryman, gunner, machine gunner |
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cannular | (adjective) constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids) | Synonyms: tube-shaped, tubelike, tubular, vasiform |
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canter | (noun) a smooth three-beat gait; between a trot and a gallop | Synonyms: lope |
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(verb) ride at a canter | - |
(verb) go at a canter, of horses | - |
(verb) cause to ride at a cantering pace | - |
cantilever | (noun) projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only | - |
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(verb) construct with girders and beams such that only one end is fixed | - |
(verb) project as a cantilever | - |
cantor | (noun) the official of a synagogue who conducts the liturgical part of the service and sings or chants the prayers intended to be performed as solos | Synonyms: hazan |
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(noun) the musical director of a choir | Synonyms: choirmaster, precentor |
canvasser | (noun) someone who conducts surveys of public opinion | Synonyms: headcounter, poll taker, pollster |
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(noun) someone who examines votes at an election | Synonyms: scrutineer |
(noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: solicitor |
(noun) a person who takes or counts votes | - |
capacitor | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, condenser, electrical condenser |
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caper | (noun) gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement | Synonyms: frolic, gambol, play, romp |
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(noun) a crime (especially a robbery) | Synonyms: job |
(noun) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement | Synonyms: antic, joke, prank, put-on, trick |
(noun) a playful leap or hop | Synonyms: capriole |
(noun) pickled flower buds used as a pungent relish in various dishes and sauces | - |
(noun) any of numerous plants of the genus Capparis | - |
(verb) jump about playfully | - |
capitular | (adjective) of or pertaining to an ecclesiastical chapter | Synonyms: capitulary |
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capsular | (adjective) of or relating to a capsule | - |
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(adjective) resembling a capsule | - |
captor | (noun) a person who captures and holds people or animals | Synonyms: capturer |
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capturer | (noun) a person who captures and holds people or animals | Synonyms: captor |
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car | (noun) a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine | Synonyms: auto, automobile, machine, motorcar |
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(noun) a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad | Synonyms: railcar, railroad car, railway car |
(noun) where passengers ride up and down | Synonyms: elevator car |
(noun) the compartment that is suspended from an airship and that carries personnel and the cargo and the power plant | Synonyms: gondola |
(noun) a conveyance for passengers or freight on a cable railway | Synonyms: cable car |
carabineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabinier, carbineer |
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carabiner | (noun) an oblong metal ring with a spring clip; used in mountaineering to attach a rope to a piton or to connect two ropes | Synonyms: karabiner, snap ring |
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carabinier | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carbineer |
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carbineer | (noun) a soldier (historically a mounted soldier) who is armed with a carbine | Synonyms: carabineer, carabinier |
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carbonator | (noun) a device that carries out carbonation. | Synonyms: soda carbonator, soda maker |
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carbuncular | (adjective) afflicted with or resembling a carbuncle | Synonyms: carbuncled |
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carburetor | (noun) mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion | Synonyms: carburettor |
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carburettor | (noun) mixes air with gasoline vapor prior to explosion | Synonyms: carburetor |
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cardholder | (noun) a player who holds a card or cards in a card game | - |
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(noun) a person who holds a credit card or debit card | - |
cardiovascular | (adjective) of or pertaining to or involving the heart and blood vessels | - |
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cardsharper | (noun) a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games | Synonyms: card shark, card sharp, card sharper, cardsharp, sharper, sharpie, sharpy |
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career | (noun) the particular occupation for which you are trained | Synonyms: calling, vocation |
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(noun) the general progression of your working or professional life | Synonyms: life history |
(verb) move headlong at high speed | - |
caregiver | (noun) a person who is responsible for attending to the needs of a child or dependent adult | - |
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(noun) a person who helps in identifying or preventing or treating illness or disability | Synonyms: health care provider, health professional, PCP, primary care provider |
caretaker | (noun) a custodian who is hired to take care of something (property or a person) | - |
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(noun) an official who performs the duties of an office temporarily | - |
carillonneur | (noun) a musician who plays a carillon | - |
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carmaker | (noun) a business engaged in the manufacture of automobiles | Synonyms: auto maker, auto manufacturer, automaker, car maker, car manufacturer |
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carnosaur | (noun) large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having huge claws | - |
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caroler | (noun) a singer of carols | Synonyms: caroller |
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caroller | (noun) a singer of carols | Synonyms: caroler |
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carouser | (noun) someone who enjoys riotous drinking | Synonyms: wassailer |
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carpenter | (noun) a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects | - |
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(verb) work as a carpenter | - |
carper | (noun) someone who constantly criticizes in a petty way | Synonyms: niggler |
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carpetbagger | (noun) an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously | - |
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carrefour | (noun) a junction where one street or road crosses another | Synonyms: crossing, crossroad, crossway, intersection |
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